All ODU theses and dissertations since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles to 1976 of dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Research by College, Department, Center page.
At some point, backfiles for all master's theses will be scanned and added. In the meantime, consult the library guide for "Dissertations & Theses" to find older items in print.
See the Graduate School site for information on submitting your ETD.
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: DNA Repair Deficiency in Huntington's Disease Fibroblasts and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Peter Anthony Mollica
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Ethical Behavior: A Case Study of Administrative Employees at a Mid-Atlantic University, Najwa Mordhah
Dissertation: Exploring the Relationship Between Receipt of Counseling Services and College Students' Academic Success, Catherine Moss
Dissertation: Honor, Courage, Commitment: Understanding Sexual Assault in the United States Navy, Caitlin Veronica Muldoon
Dissertation: Lower Extremity Biomechanics in Individuals With and Without Previous Hamstring Injury, Jessica A. Mutchler
Thesis: The Differential Effect of Anticipated Work-Family Conflict on the STEM Major Embeddedness of Men and Women, Dante P. Myers
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention and Asset Pricing, Nadia Asmaa Nafar
Dissertation: Dwelling in Time, Dwelling in Structures: Disintegration in World Politics, Jan Adam Nalaskowski
Dissertation: Investigation of the Potential for Algaenan to Produce Hydrocarbon Based Fuels From Algae by Hydrous Pyrolysis, Wassim Adel Obeid
Dissertation: Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold Argon and Krypton Confined in a Magneto Optical Trap, Maha Khaled Omar
Dissertation: Identities and Interactions in a Transcultural Online Collaboration Project, Zsuzsanna Bacsa Palmer
Thesis: Parallel Two-Dimensional Unstructured Anisotropic Delaunay Mesh Generation for Aerospace Applications, Juliette Kelly Pardue
Dissertation: Molecular Phylogenetics and Historical Biogeography of the Tribe Chiococceae (Rubiaceae), Sushil Kumar Paudyal
Dissertation: An Exploration of Health Providers' Responses to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Malaysia, Kee Pau
Dissertation: International Venture Capital Firms Syndication and Performance: A Social Network Perspective, Amir Pezeshkan
Dissertation: A Risk Assessment of the Impacts of Coastal Flooding and Sea Level Rise on the Existing and New Pump Stations 113, Norfolk, VA, David A. Pezza
Dissertation: Studies of Two-Nucleon Interactions and Few-Body Electromagnetic Structure in Chiral Effective Field Theory, Maria Piarulli
Dissertation: A Preliminary Study Investigating Motivational Factors Influencing Part-time Faculty to Seek Employment at Community Colleges, Philip Eugene Pons Jr.
Dissertation: Hydrothermal Catalytic Liquefaction and Deoxygenation of Biomass for Renewable Fuel Production, Sergiy Popov
Dissertation: Examining the Relationship Between Leadership Decision Making Styles and Personality Type Within the Department of Defense, Antoine Lamont Prince Sr.
Dissertation: The Impact of the C. L. E. A. R. (Challenge Leading to Engagement, Achievement, and Results) Curriculum Model on Reading Achievement at the Third Grade Level, Robin Gale Puryear
Dissertation: Wildlife Crime and Other Challenges to Resource System Resilience, Patricia Anne Raxter
Thesis: Predictors of Self-Esteem in Children Exposed to Potentially Traumatic Events, Colleen Michelle Ray
Thesis: Accuracy Comparison of Numerical Integration Algorithms for Real-Time Hybrid Simulations, Ganesh Anant Reddy
Dissertation: In Search of Autonomy: Nepal as a Wedge State Between India and China, Sagar Rijal
Thesis: Residential Segregation in Norfolk, Virginia: How the Federal Government Reinforced Racial Division in a Southern City, 1914-1959, Kevin Lang Ringelstein
Dissertation: Pedagogy at Play: Gamification and Gameful Design in the 21st-Century Writing Classroom, Danielle Roney Roach
Thesis: Examining the Factors Related to Bisexual Individuals' Preference for Future Parenting Partner, Laurin Beth Roberts
Dissertation: The Effect of Preferred Visual Aesthetic on Focused Attention, Use Intention, and Persistence in an Instructional Simulation, Don Grady Robison
Dissertation: Characterizing Queue Dynamics at Signalized Intersections From Probe Vehicle Data, Semuel Yacob Recky Rompis
Dissertation: Program Standards for Establishing High Quality Postsecondary Trade and Industrial Education Programs, Beno Rubin
Dissertation: Detecting, Modeling, and Predicting User Temporal Intention, Hany M. SalahEldeen
Dissertation: The Effects of Incorporating Interactive Questioning During Shared Electronic Book Reading on Preschoolers' Comprehension, Lynda Gail Salmon
Thesis: A Survey of Aquatic Organisms for the Cyanotoxin Beta-Methylamino-L-Alanine (BMAA), Ian M. Sammler
Dissertation: PTSD Symptom Severity and Neurocognitive Performance as a Function of Combined TMS and Imaginal Exposure in OIF/OEF Combat Veterans with Treatment Resistant PTSD, Katharine Seagly
Dissertation: Supervised Classification Using Copula and Mixture Copula, Sumen Sen
Dissertation: Creating Memories: Writing and Designing More Memorable Documents, James Eric Sentell
Dissertation: Multichannel Characterization of Brain Activity in Neurological Impairments, Yalda Shahriari
Dissertation: Wireless Networking for Vehicle to Infrastructure Communication and Automatic Incident Detection, Sarwar Aziz Sha-Mohammad
Thesis: Molecular Phylogeny of the Genus Houstonia and Allies in Rubiaceae, Hunter Lee Shanks
Dissertation: Meson Photo-Couplings From Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Christian J. P. Shultz
Dissertation: Computational Development for Secondary Structure Detection From Three-Dimensional Images of Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Dong Si
Dissertation: Command and Control in the Information Age: A Case Study of a Representative Air Power Command and Control Node, Marvin Leo Simpson Jr.
Dissertation: Three Essays on Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Development, Adam Smith
Thesis: Groundwater Thresholds for Root Decomposition and the Relation to Barrier Island Ecological State Changes, Matthew Lee Smith
Dissertation: A Mixed Methods Study of the Intersection of Sexual Orientation and Spiritual Development in the College Experience, Kevin C. Snow
Dissertation: Exploring the Effect of Climate Change on Biological Systems, Nardos Sori
Thesis: Perceptions of Social Control in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Use: Are They Related?, Kanita Shiquia Sumner
Dissertation: Study of Photochemical Formation of Hydroxyl Radical in Natural Waters, Luni Sun
Thesis: Comparing Nutrient Recovery via Rapid (Flash Hydrolysis) and Conventional Hydrothermal Liquefaction Processes for Microalgae Cultivation, Caleb Richard Talbot
Thesis: Potential for Biocontrol of Environmental Vibrio Spp. by Predatory Bacteria Bacteriovorax, Patrick Tennis
Dissertation: Uncertainty Estimates and Prediction Interval Development for Internal Strain Gage Balance Calibration Systems, Kenneth G. Toro
Dissertation: Two-Year and Four-Year Tertiary Education: Measuring Human Capital Effects on Economic Growth in Developing and Developed Countries with the Uzawa-Lucas Model, Darryl M. Tyndorf
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Case Study Concerning Science Teacher Educators' Beliefs and Teaching Practices About Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Preparing K-12 Science Teachers to Engage African American Students in K-12 Science, Janice Bell Underwood
Thesis: Employee Opportunism in Two Early Modern British Trading Companies, Robert Franklin Unger
Dissertation: The Role of Diversity on Team Effectiveness in a Multinational and Multicultural Military Environment, Mustafa Utoglu
Dissertation: New Engineering Approaches to Arrhythmias and Myocardial Infarction, Frency Varghese
Dissertation: A Framework and System for a Multi-Model Decision Aid for Sustainable Farming Practices, Kasi Bharath Vegesana
Thesis: Dental Consumers' Perceptions of Dental Hygienists with Visible Tattoos, Amanda Brooke Verissimo
Thesis: The Effects of Pre-Maximal Exertion Inhalation of Ammonia and the Performance Effects During Deadlift Maximal Tests, Justin Nicholas Vigil
Thesis: Mobile Cloud Computing Based Non Rigid Registration for Image Guided Surgery, Arun Brahmavar Vishwanatha
Dissertation: Zero-Inflated Models to Identify Transcription Factor Binding Sites in ChIP-seq Experiments, Sameera Dhananjaya Viswakula
Dissertation: Proclivity or Popularity? Exploring Agent Heterogeneity in Network Formation, Xiaotian Wang
Dissertation: Safety Culture Monitoring: A Management Approach for Assessing Nuclear Safety Culture Health Performance Utilizing Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis, James Harold Warren Jr.
Thesis: Assessing the Effectiveness of an Interval Estimation and a Visual-Spatial Secondary Task as Measures of Mental Workload During Laparoscopy, Levi Parker Warvel
Dissertation: Development of a Practical Visual-Evoked Potential-Based Brain-Computer Interface, Nicholas R. Waytowich
Dissertation: A Study of a Simulated Infectious Disease on Healthcare Workers' Reaction, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Performance Towards Hand Hygiene, Lydia Wigglesworth-Ballard
Dissertation: Exploring Conceptualization and Operationalization of Interorganizational Interactions: An Empirical Study, Andrew Paul Williams
Dissertation: Source-Specific Molecular Signatures for Light-Absorbing Organic Aerosols, Amanda Susan Willoughby
Dissertation: Catalysis of Stark-Tuned Interactions Between Ultracold Rydberg Atoms, Aye Lu Win
Dissertation: Determining the Prevalence and Distribution of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Southeastern Virginia and Exploring the Transmission Dynamics of Rickettsia Parkeri in Amblyomma Maculatum, Chelsea L. Wright Thompson
Dissertation: Ablation of Cardiac Tissue with Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields: Experiments and Numerical Simulations, Fei Xie
Dissertation: The Effects of Function-Based Thinking on Teacher Selection of Interventions for Disruptive Student Behavior, Kimberly Yanek
Dissertation: Perceptions of Impediments to the Advancement of Women Leaders in Community Colleges, Teresa Alley Yearout
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Dissertation: State Variable Model for Unsteady Two Dimensional Axial Vortex Flow with Pressure Relaxation, Mazin Mohammed Elbakri Abuharaz
Dissertation: The Impacts of In-State Procurement Preference Policies on the Economy of South Carolina, Sawsan A. Abutabenjeh
Dissertation: Direct Measurements of Two Photon Exchange on Lepton-Proton Elastic Scattering Using Simultaneous Electron-Positron Beams in CLAS, Dasuni Kalhari Adikaram
Thesis: Effects of Simultaneous Alarms on Resolution Heuristics, Amanda C. Allen
Thesis: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Barriers Toward Evidence-Based Practice Among Oral Health Professionals in Saudi Arabia, Sukainah Abdulwahab Almeedani
Dissertation: Web Archive Services Framework for Tighter Integration Between the Past and Present Web, Ahmed AlSum
Thesis: Crustal Accretion and Mantle Geodynamics at Microplates: Constraints from Gravity Analysis and Numerical Modeling, Katherine Ames
Dissertation: The Impact of Multiple Nursery Areas on the Population Structure of Atlantic Menhaden, Brevooria tyrannus, Kristen A. Anstead
Dissertation: Using Two Formats of a Social Story to Increase the Social-Communication Skills of Three Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Nicole A. Anthony
Dissertation: Meshless Mechanics and Point-Based Visualization Methods for Surgical Simulations, Rifat Aras
Dissertation: Modeling Stem Cell Population Dynamics, Samiur Arif
Dissertation: Reducing Intrinsic Cognitive Load in Complex Learning Such as Flight Training That Involves Both Cognitive and Psychomotor Tasks, Adil Aslan
Dissertation: Role of Surface Chemistry in Nanoscale Electrokinetic Transport, Secuk Atalay
Dissertation: Transparent Spectrum Co-Access in Cognitive Radio Networks, Jonathan Daniel Backens
Dissertation: A Systems-Based Framework for the Assessment of Performance Measurement System Implementations in R&D Organizations, Kenneth S. Baggett Jr.
Dissertation: Weak Links in a Dangerously Fractured Region: Fragile State as Global Threats, Tasawar ul-Rahim Baig
Thesis: Predation Thresholds in Marine Microbial Communities Applied to Environments with Low Prey Abundances, Bonnie Bailey
Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Earnings Management in Emerging Markets, Shuji Rosey Bao
Dissertation: Human Capital Management Within the Federal Government Utilizing Generational Stratification With a Focus on Generation Y, Ian Nathaniel Barford
Dissertation: Characterization of an Impulse Radiating Antenna in the Near Field, Chandra Barjracharya
Dissertation: Time-Based Collision Risk Modeling for Air Traffic Management, Alan E. Bell
Thesis: Default Effects in the Endorsement of Environmental Policies, Blake J. Bent
Thesis: Mutual Performance Monitoring in Virtual Teams, Nathan Haugejorde Bjornberg
Thesis: The Influence of Childhood Maltreatment on Substance Abuse in Adulthood, James Michael Blinco
Dissertation: An Investigation of Business Transformation Disruptors at the Military Strategic Command Level, Thomas Bock
Dissertation: Applying Leadership Theory to the Work-Family Interface: Examining the Interactive Effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors and Leader-Member Exchange Quality, Heather M. Bolen